Eight Long Islanders Charged With Payroll, Comp Fraud

Eight Long Island business owners have been charged with fraud after they allegedly underpaid the New York State Insurance Fund more than $133,000 in premiums, prosecutors said this week. The men also were charged with cheating workers out of more than $250,000 in wages and with failing to pay more than $58,000 in unemployment taxes, according to a Long Island news report. “The message from my office, from labor, from all our law-enforcement partners, is this: If you are cheating your workers, we are coming for you,” Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini said at a news co...